#mart

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't. ↗

— Philip Roth

#decide #dim #fiction #i #i write

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me. ↗

— Karl Rove

#dumb #gets #lose #me #president

The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries. ↗

— Ed Royce

#department #elements #idea #influence #mantra

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#feel #how #into #million #person

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives. ↗

— Jane Rule

#choices #feel #force #genuinely #happy

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair. ↗

— Usher

#becoming #better #feel #grow #hair

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#martyrdom #occupation #resisting #stop #until

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#heroes #jr #king #luther #martin

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#i #i write #smart #something #too

Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#even #george #george w #intentions #knowledgeable